I changed the purpose of this thread because it was a duplicate. Original post is below, for archive/historical purposes:

Inspired by username's similar thread.

You get one point every time you are the first to post at the start of each year. Years start at midnight UTC.

Now, forget this thread exists... until January 1, 2018 that is...

One more rule: the consolation prize. Every player gets a consolation prize of (0.5*(0.88^(s))) for their first post in the thread in a given year, where "s" is the number of seconds since 00:00:00 UTC, 1 January, provided that they haven't already won the main prize that year,

In practice, of course, this means that if you post more than a few seconds after midnight then your consolation prize will be negligible.

10.10110... (dunno if it has an exact decimal representation and demonstration left to the reader)

Jose

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